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" Indeed, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will greatly lead to increased consumer health awareness and self-management and will enable individualized treatment pathways supported by tele-health care and coaching. "

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" Healthcare continues to move outside the hospital and into our homes and everyday lives. With leading doctors and psychologists, for example, we've developed personal health programs designed around patients to catalyze sustainable behavioural change. "

Frans van Houten

Health

Change

Hospital

" We have transformed Philips into a focused leader in health technology, delivering innovation to help people manage their health. "

" Our strategy is focused on driving better outcomes for patients and higher productivity for hospitals. "

" Perhaps sooner than we think, African innovations will help the rest of the world create lasting social and economic value. "

" Even though we live in a fast-changing world with short term-ism all around, it requires years of determination to transform a company and structurally reap the rewards. Innovation companies need to set their sights on solving unmet needs - but this approach requires focus and long-term tenacity. "

" Thanks to the digital and big data revolution, we can start to do what was previously unthinkable - to improve patient outcomes and lower healthcare costs while delivering personalized care to each individual. "

" How can we keep people healthy, and if they get sick, how can we treat them right the first time? "

" The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues. "

Frans van Houten

Human

Job

" We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up innovation, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our culture, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and scale became a competitive advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification. "

" Growing and aging populations are putting increased pressure on health-care systems that are already buckling under the burden of chronic diseases like cancer and diabetes. "

Frans van Houten

Pressure

Growing

" The conventional way of selling products out of the catalogue no longer works; the relationship needs to become more sticky. "

Frans van Houten

Become

Relationship

" I think, going forward, we need to be much more modest on expectations with regard to China growth: That's just being realistic. "

" We typically sell a catheter lab to a hospital, and it sits there for the next 10 years, and we don't visit the cardiologist on a daily basis. Volcano have a disposable business. They are in the cath lab on a daily basis. "

" Having a consumer brand helps us a lot. We will see more ambulatory care, and there will be a lot of new ways to deliver healthcare... and that means consumerism is going to play a bigger role. "

" As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution. "

" Our health underpins our happiness and is a foundation of economic advancement. "

" Crucially, healthcare needs to become connected. It should become effortless for medical professionals to share relevant data with colleagues around the world. Medical devices and systems in hospitals should be able to combine multiple sources of information. "

" Great companies need to reinvent themselves. We can do that: we can stay relevant, we can grow, and we can stay successful. It takes courage, but it's a path we've been preparing for carefully. "

" Tech can help population health, make health more accessible, more affordable. Tech can also get people get more included in the economy and contribute and drive growth, and growth and wealth are great contributors to a safer world. "

" I think of the world as geographical regions, and it excites me to think about the opportunity that Europe can have if we consider it to be the 500-million-people region that it is. "

Frans van Houten

Think

Opportunity

" Genomics, Artificial Intelligence, and Deep Machine learning technologies are helping practitioners deliver better diagnosis and actually freeing up time for patient interaction. "

Frans van Houten

Deep

Intelligence

" Time may not be on our side, but innovation is. "

" In Kenya, e-learning has taught 12,000 nurses how to treat major diseases such as HIV and malaria, compared to the 100 nurses a year that can be taught in a classroom. "

" We knew we could put the company on the right side of history by decisive transformative action and by redefining our purpose to improving people's lives through innovation. "

" Concerns about the possible side-effects of connected care are swept aside by the expectations of the benefits when people are confronted with a chronic disease themselves. Resistance that could be privacy-related completely disappears. "

" We are addressing duplication and complexity. At the same time, we are investing more in research and development, speeding up the time to market of new innovations, and expanding our sales force in markets where growth is to be found, like Turkey, Russia, the Mideast, China, and southeast Asia. "

" We are very optimistic about our opportunities in China. Our toothbrushes continue to sell very well, while the growth of private hospitals diminishes the risk of government preferring domestic suppliers. "

" It is vital that a company's culture shows a willingness to invest in employee wellbeing with no stigma or penalty attached to prioritising good health. "

" City farming is not only possible, it is the very definition of the kind of meaningful, sustainable innovation we will need to meet the grand challenges of the 21st century: climate change; population growth; ageing population; urbanization; rising demand for energy, food and water; poverty; and access to healthcare. "

" If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that. "

Frans van Houten

Technology